Outsiders
The protagonist in the novel
Who is Ponyboy?
The protagonist in the story
Who is Ebeneezer Scrooge?
What every sentence begins with
What is a capital letter?
How the reader knows the title is a book
What are italics?
The turning point of a story
What is the climax?
How Ponyboy's parents died.
What is a car accident?
Scrooge's assistant
Who is Bob Cratchit?
What every sentence ends with
What is a period or a question mark.
How the reader knows a title is a short story or an article
What are quotation marks?
The events that lead up to the climax
What is the rising action?
How Dally died
What is shot by the police.
Why Scrooge does not act kindly towards his nephew, Fred
What is: he blames him for his sister's (Fred's mother's) death
How the reader knows a new paragraph has started.
What is indent or tab in?
What goes in the parentheses ( ) after a quote from a book
What are author's last name and page #?
The events that follow the climax
What is the falling action?
The message in the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Who Scrooge sends the giant turkey to
Who are the Cratchits?
The most important sentence in a BODY paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
What comes before the quote when adding a citation to a paragraph
What is an introduction?
The struggle between two forces in a story
What is the conflict?
What Ponyboy finally realizes at the end of the novel
What is: Darry really loves him.
How we know that Scrooge will be kinder towards Bob Cratchit
He gives him a raise and/or sends his family a turkey
The most important sentence in an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
The five parts of MLA format in formal writing
What are: proper heading, Times New Roman, size 12 font, double spacing, and 1 inch margins?
The message the author wants the reader to learn in a story
What is the theme?